Thinking Musically: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture / Edition 3

by Bonnie C. Wade

Overview

As the cornerstone of the Global Music Series, Thinking Musically, Third Edition, explores musical diversity by integrating the sounds and traditions of world cultures. Bonnie C. Wade discusses how various cultural influences-gender, ethnicity, mass media, westernization, nationalism, and acculturation-are shaping music and the ways that we experience it.

WHAT'S NEW TO THE THIRD EDITION?
* Simplified and incorporates recent additions to the Global Music Series
* New charts and diagrams delve into important musical concepts
* Updated companion website includes a new guide to online and print resources, a sample syllabi, and teaching tips

Visit www.oup.com/us/globalmusic for a list of case studies in the Global Music Series. The website also includes instructional material to accompany each study.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199844869
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/14/2012
Series:	Global Music Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Bonnie C. Wade is Professor of Music, Chair of the Faculty Group in Asian Studies, and holder of the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has served as President of the Society of Ethnomusicology.

Table of Contents

, Foreword, Preface, CD Track List, A Note to Readers1. Thinking about MusicPeople—Music Makers—ListenersMusic—In Terms of Sound—Calling Something "Music"—Aesthetic Values in MusicMeaning—Music and Textual Meaning—Music as TextUseTransmission of Musical Knowledge—Oral and Aural Transmission—Visual Transmission in the form of notation2. Thinking about InstrumentsInstruments as Objects—Ideas about Instrument Types—Ideas about Particular Instruments—-Associations of Sexuality and Gender—-Spiritual Associations—-Cultural Status—-Aesthetic Value—-Item of Technology——Item of Commodity—-Timbre and Aesthetics of SoundInstruments in Musical Practice—Instrumental Capacity—Ideas about Ensemble—-Heterogeneous and Homogeneous—— Sound Ideals—-Musical Roles—-Aesthetics of Ensembles3. Thinking about TimeRhythm—Free Rhythm—Rhythm for the Text Alone—-From free rhythm to relatively more organized time—Pulse/BeatOrganizing Time into Units—-At the lever of a Single Beat—-Metric Structures with Flexible Means of Articulation—-Duple and Triple Meters—-Some Other Meters—-South Indian Tala—-Metric Structures with Given Means of Articulation—-Southeast Asian Colotomic Meter—-North Indian Tala—-Middle Eastern Rhythmic Modes—-Rhythmic Groupings—-Korean Changdan—-PolyrhythmSpeed4. Thinking about PitchPitch—Pitch Names—-Syllables—-Numbers—-LettersSetting the Pitch—Who Sets the Pitch—Pitch PlacementPitches in Succession—Intervals—-Naming Intervals—-Microtones—Scale—-The Chromatic Scale—-Diatonic Scales—-The "Oriental" Scale—Number of Pitches in an Octave—Pitch Functions—Melodic ModeSimultaneous Pitches—Naming "Vertical" Intervals—Dissonance and Consonance—Western Functional Harmony—Tone ClustersInterplay Among Melodic and Harmonic Parts—Performing One Melody—-Solo and in Unison—-Interlocking Parts—-Rounds—-Heterophony—Performing One Melody with Another Part—-Melody and Drone—-Melody and Chords—Performing Multiple Melodies—-Polyphony—-Melody and Ostinato5. Thinking about StructuringImprovising and Composing—Persons Who ComposePutting Something Significant First—Sonata Form—North Indian Instrumental FormComing to an EndTelling the Story—Music for the Moment—Through-composed Music—Contrasting Instrumentation—Strophic FormResponding to the Context—Audience-Performer Interaction—Intra-ensemble Interaction—Music and MovementSocial Values6. Thinking Critically about IssuesEncounters and Identities—A Focus on Influences—A Focus on Boundaries—-The National Community—-Regional Identity—-Gender—-Multiple IdentitiesAuthenticityTranscending Boundaries—The Mass Media—Globalization—The Local7. Thinking about FieldworkPicking a ProjectPlanning the ProjectDoing the ProjectFinishing the Project, Glossary of Musical Terms, References, Index

Editorial Reviews

"Thinking Musically combines features of a course in musicianship with courses on the introduction to music and music cultures in different parts of the world. There is no other book like this on the market." -Eliot Bates, Cornell University

"Thinking Musically will provide students with a strong foundation from which they can shape their own research goals as young scholars."-Ruth Emily Rosenberg, University of Illinois, Chicago

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